Call for Papers TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED AND EMBODIED INTERACTION (TEI) 2012 February 19-22, 2012 at Queen’s Human Media Lab in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. http://tei-conf.org/12 IMPORTANT DATES 1st September 2011: Papers, Studio Proposals 1st November 2011: Graduate Consortium, Art Exhibits, Design Challenge (CFP to follow) 6th January 2011: Early registration deadline 9th-22nd February 2012: TEI Conference in Kingston, Ontario, Canada TEI 2012 is the sixth international conference dedicated to presenting cutting edge research in tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction. The work presented at TEI addresses design challenges, theories, experiences, systems, and new developments, with specific emphasis on all the physical aspects of…

Workshop: Personal Identities after the Information Revolution University of Hertfordshire, UK, 17 June 2011 Part of the AHRC project The Construction of Personal Identities Online http://philosophyofinformation.net/pio.html Workshop Themes and Focus Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are building a new habitat (infosphere) in which we are spending an increasing amount of time. So, how individuals construct and maintain their personal identities online (PIOs) is a problem of growing and pressing importance. Today, PIOs can be created and developed, as an ongoing work-in-progress, to provide experiential enrichment, expand, improve or even help to repair relationships with others and with the world, or…

Advanced Interaction Technology Special Session of Fourth International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE ‘2011) The British University in Dubai, UAE 6th-8th December 2011 http://www.dese.org.uk/ Over the last decade interaction has been moving away from the desktop to new ways of interacting. People expect to interact on the go, and in different locations, and preserve their user experience no matter what technology they are using. In this special session we call for papers that address new and emerging technologies for advanced interaction. Papers should be no more than 6 pages long and address current research in one or more…

Dear Colleagues, Chapter proposals are invited for an edited book on Virtual Worlds in Online and Distance Education, to be published by Athabasca University Press as part of Terry Anderson’s Issues in Distance Education series. The book’s scope will encompass the use of virtual worlds for fully online/distance and blended modes of education in post-secondary settings across the globe. There will be two types of chapters, namely chapters addressing specific themes and issues (5,000-8,000 words) and chapters reporting on case studies (2,000-4,000 words). The Call for Proposals is available online at the following web site: http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/vwwg/vwwgbook.html…

The SMPTE Second Annual International Conference on Stereoscopic 3D for Media & Entertainment 21-22 June 2011 Co-located with DV Expo East, taking place on 22 June 2011 Millennium Broadway Hotel, New York City SMPTE (the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) is pleased to invite you to the only scientific event focused solely on the critical technologies needed for widespread and sustained 3D adoption. Once again, we’ll feature the latest work of leading scientists, researchers, and engineers. Better still, we’ve co-located our event with DV Expo East, which takes place on 22 June 2011, and will feature technology exhibits,…